CATTLE, PIES, & JELLIES BRING IN BIG BUCKS!

4-H KIDS RAISE MORE THAN $86,000 FOR NEW AMBULANCE
DURING ANNUAL CATTLEMAN’S ROUND UP FUNDRAISERS

(Corpus Christi, TX) The totals are in and they are big! Young 4-H members, as well as area barn owners and managers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses, combined efforts to raise more than $86,273 during the 22nd Annual South Texas Cattleman’s Round Up this summer. Six grass roots fundraising events took place throughout South Texas in Alice, Beeville, Cuero, Hallettsville, Rio Grande City and Three Rivers at area livestock exchanges and auction barns to benefiting Driscoll Children’s Hospital.

“We are very appreciative of the community support and all-around amazing response to this year’s six events,” says Martha St Romain, Vice President of Development. “This year’s totals were up more than 50% over last year’s.

Special lunchtime auctions were held during a break from regular livestock sales action. Cattle, pigs, and goats, as well as pies, cakes, cookies, jellies, squash, and watermelon were donated and up for auction.

100% of this year’s event proceeds will aid in the purchase of a new ambulance for Driscoll. Traveling more than 120,000 miles a year throughout South Texas, the hospital’s critical care transport services offer emergency, timely, comprehensive, advanced medical services for neonatal and pediatric trauma, acute cardiac and respiratory events, as well as emergency surgical and medical needs, 24 hours a day, several days a week. 63% of the hospital’s transports are conducted by ambulance, a portion of which originate from the Three Rivers area.

For more information about tax-deductible donations, please call (361) 694-6402.

About Driscoll Children’s Hospital
“Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health …
Improve the health of children and you give them their life.”

Since opening its doors in 1953, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been offering hope and healing to the children of South Texas for half a century. The facility is a 189-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. Each year, more than 6,000 children are admitted for inpatient care, 5,000 for day surgery, and 50,000 for outpatient primary and specialty care, as well as 40,000 for emergency care, as the first South Texas hospital with emergency services exclusively for children. Additionally, Driscoll maintains a state-of-the-art ground/air transport team, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and specialized medical outreach.

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